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While he wasn't in the room during Trump's speech, Cornett was in front of a microphone and camera and speaking to Brooke Baldwin less than an hour later.

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During the presidential campaign, Trump promised Cornett and his co-workers that Carrier jobs would remain stateside, despite news that they'd soon be shipped to Mexico. Trump said that promise was meant to be of a broader nature, but Cornett was nonetheless fully aboard "Team Trump."

"I believed him 100%. That's why I voted for him," he told Baldwin during "CNN Newsroom." "This was ... a promise that he was going to make us and I believed in it."

Months after the promise, and now with Trump set to assume duties in the country's highest office, Cornett is as convinced as ever. And though he hadn't yet had a chance to meet the President-elect, he knows what he'll say if he does.